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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 2002, 10:02 PM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2002, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLSX 090302 FFWSTL MOC051-135-090700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1000 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 957 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN AND AROUND TIPTON...CLARKSBURG...CALIFORNIA...AND CENTERTOWN. * FLASH FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...AS A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING AREAS AROUND TIPTON...CLARKSBURG...CALIFORNIA...RUSSELLVILLE...LOHMAN... ST. MARTINS...JEFFERSON CITY...EUGENE...AND ST. THOMAS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. CARNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 5 hr |
| May 8, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 40 min | |
| May 8, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 27 min | |
| May 8, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 46 min |
| May 8, 11:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Gasconade, Montgomery, Osage | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 41 min | |
| May 9, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 23 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.